Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework
Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.015
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
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6.7
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Sovacool, Benjamin
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作者：
Cherp, Aleh;Vinichenko, Vadim;Sovacool, Benjamin
经济发展、技术创新和政策变化是影响能源转型的重要因素。因此，解释能源转型需要结合研究这些因素的学科的见解。现有的文献在确定这些学科方面并不一致，也没有提出如何将它们结合起来。我们将国家能源转型概念化为三种类型系统的共同演变：能源流动和市场，能源技术和能源相关政策。对这三种类型的系统的关注引起了对国家能源转型的三种观点：技术经济，其根源在能源系统分析和经济学的各个领域;社会技术，其根源在技术社会学，STS和进化经济学;和政治，其根源在政治科学。我们使用这三个视角作为组织原则，提出了一个元理论框架，分析国家能源转型。根据埃莉诺奥斯特罗姆的方法，拟议的框架解释了国家能源转型通过嵌套的概念图的变量和理论。与现有的元理论文献相比，三个视角框架提升了政治学的作用，因为政策可能会在塑造21世纪世纪能源转型中越来越突出。
Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions requires combining insights from disciplines investigating these factors. The existing literature is not consistent in identifying these disciplines nor proposing how they can be combined. We conceptualize national energy transitions as a co-evolution of three types of systems: energy flows and markets, energy technologies, and energy-related policies. The focus on the three types of systems gives rise to three perspectives on national energy transitions: techno-economic with its roots in energy systems analysis and various domains of economics; socio-technical with its roots in sociology of technology, STS, and evolutionary economics; and political with its roots in political science. We use the three perspectives as an organizing principle to propose a meta-theoretical framework for analyzing national energy transitions. Following Elinor Ostrom's approach, the proposed framework explains national energy transitions through a nested conceptual map of variables and theories. In comparison with the existing meta-theoretical literature, the three perspectives framework elevates the role of political science since policies are likely to be increasingly prominent in shaping 21st century energy transitions.